AI-generated image description: Table showing performance of the president's party in midterm election years for the House of Representatives, including seats before and after, change, presidential margin, job growth, and other notes from 1946 to 2010.

AI-extracted visible text:
Performance of President's Party in Midterm Election Years
House of Representatives
Seats for President's Party
Year President's Party Before Change After Pres. Margin Job Growth Other
1946 D 242 -54 188 7.5% 2.8%
1950 D 263 -28 235 4.5% 4.6%
1954 R 221 -18 203 10.9% -2.4%
1958 R 201 -48 153 15.4% -2.7%
1962 D 262 -4 258 0.2% 4.4%
1966 D 295 -48 248 22.6% 8.8%
1970 R 192 -12 180 0.7% 1.6%
1974 R 192 -48 144 23.2% 4.0% Watergate
1978 D 292 -15 277 2.1% 9.0%
1982 R 192 -26 166 9.7% -2.3%
1986 R 18

Originally embedded in "Democrats Unlikely to Regain House in 2014", an article by Nate Silver: http://fivethirtyeight.com:80/features/democrats-unlikely-to-regain-house-in-2014/

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